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February 19th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda On Saturday, the Administrator of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) Helen Clark, and the Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos called for greater humanitarian response to the crisis that has struck eight countries, including Niger.
During a joint visit to Niger, the pair traveled to the Tillabery region in the country’s southwest for a first-hand look at the impact of the crisis.
They visited an agricultural project supported by the UN in the village of Molia that allows villagers to grow vegetables in a sustainable way and at the same time improve their nutrition and boost their incomes.
“This project shows how a tiny initial investment can make a major difference,” Amos said.
“Just a few kilometers from here, there is a village which has not had this investment, where people are leaving their homes and have taken their children out of school so that they can look for food,” she pointed out.
Clark noted that the wider crisis in the Sahel, where poor harvests caused by recurring drought has created severe food shortages, has left an estimated 10 million people across eight countries in urgent need of assistance.
The Sahel belt of Africa, which stretches from Senegal to Eritrea, is particularly sensitive to drought and famine. Some 10 million people were affected by a severe food crisis in the region in 2010.
International non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have sounded the alarm that the Sahel could be crippled by food shortages in 2012 as a result of poor rains last year.
Oxfam has announced that harvests plummeted 25 percent in the region compared to 2010 because of lack of rains. This will leave more than one million children threatened with severe malnutrition.
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